tone of voice

1. 1.

   the quality of a person's voice

   “he began in a conversational tone”

   “he spoke in a nervous tone of voice”

   Synonymstone

   Broadermanner of speaking

   Narrowernoteroundnessundertone

Questions about tone of voice

What does tone of voice mean?

tone of voice means "the quality of a person's voice".

What is another word for tone of voice?

Close synonyms include tone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tone of voice a common word?

tone of voice is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.